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 The Body - Hanif Kureishi
Newest Review: ... not unusual for Adam and his wife to go on separate holidays, so he tells her that he needs a sabbatical and goes to the ... more  ... secret hospital where Newbodies are made out of Oldbodies. He´s asked to browse through the rows of dead young man – he´s declined the suggestion to try out being a young woman – and finds ´his guy´, ´stocky and as classically handsome as any sculpture in the British Museum, he was neither white nor dark but slightly toasted, with a fine, thick penis and heavy balls.´
Before the operation is to begin Adam tries to engage the physician in a discussion on the implications and the impact on society Newbodies wh...more |
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The Body: AND Seven Stories
Pages: 224, Paperback, Faber and Faber Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45
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The Body - Hanif Kureishi: Bin Your Body! (1008 words)
by - written on 01/02/05 (Very useful, 156 readings)
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´The Body and Seven Stories´is the first work of fiction I´ve read by Hanif Kureishi (born in 1954), a prolific writer of plays, screenplays (My Beautiful Laundrette) , fiction (The Buddha of Suburbia) and non-fiction for which he´s received numerous awards. The first story is the longest with 126 pages, a novella rather, the other seven vary from 12 to 48 pages. The sheer length and the fact that its title is also the title of the book make the first story stand out, but is it also the best? Let´s have a look. It´s told in the first person perspective by an ageing playwright, Adam, ´´I don´t feel particularly ill, but I am in my mid-sixties . . . ... Read the complete review
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